The United States Postal Service is looking to fill more than 900 positions across the Front Range.

USPS is hiring for jobs ranging from temporary clerks to mail handlers and carriers. About 400 jobs are seasonal, according to USPS. The remaining 500 or so could potentially lead to permanent positions, according to spokesman David Rupert. Hourly wages range from $10 to $16.65, and shifts and days off vary.

Anyone interested in applying should visit www.usps.com/careers, click on “search now” and select “Colorado” to find all in-state listings. There will be frequent updates to the listings, according to USPS.

The uptick in hiring is due to what USPS projects will be a “record holiday mailing season.” About 1,600 clerks and mail carriers deliver about 1.7 million pieces of mail per day on the Denver area’s 790 mail routes. Denver postal officials estimate that as many as 6 million pieces of mail per day — 500,000 of them parcels — will be handled locally in the days preceding Christmas.

U.S. retail e-commerce sales have been on an upward trajectory, according to this graph from the the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce..

This explosive growth in shipping can be partially attributed to U.S. retail e-commerce sales, which have been on an upward trajectory for years. According to U.S. Department of Commerce statistics, U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second quarter, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, were $83.9 billion, an increase of 4.2 percent from the first quarter. E-commerce sales in the second quarter made up 7.2 percent of total retail sales. On an unadjusted basis, second quarter U.S. retail e-commerce sales totaled $78.8 billion.

Online e-commerce will continue to grow and increase its share of retail sales for a number of reasons such as avoiding sales tax, convenience and overall savings. Delivery services such as USPS, UPS and FedEx will thrive. But thieves will increasingly steal parcels left on porches and in mail boxes. Another positive is a diminishing number of bricks and mortar retail establishments. Governments will be more dependent on new sources of sales taxes such as marijuana. Cocaine next?

windbourne

which is why we need to put a sales tax on ALL delivered goods from out-of-state. The smart way, is for the feds to put a 10% tax on goods delivered over federal or state lines. In addition, the delivery service should collect the 10% tax, NOT the business.

Gilmore Tuttle

If the USPS needs to hire seasonal temps, fine. But they should NOT be hiring any “permanent USPS” employees, which on the whole are too expensive and unsustainable, due to the fact that they tend to become unionized and demand expensive health care, defined-benefit pensions and overtime pay. All new hires should strictly be as independent contractors who need to purchase health care on the Obamacare exchanges.

windbourne

huh.
Since when do you have the right to tell a PRIVATE business how to do things?
You far right wingers just seem to be natural fascists.

Nightowl

What makes you think he’s a right winger? I think he’s just extremely ill-informed. And it’s conservatives who do not want private business told how to run their business.

I have a young friend who recently was hired full time by USPS. It is NOT the worker nirvana it used to be. Mr. Tuttle is about 20 years behind the times.

windbourne

Read his posting.
He thinks that he has the right to tell everybody else how to do things.
He is a GOP right winger.
Too bad. It used to be that conservatives were actually good things. But these right wingers have more in common with 1930’s Germany fascism, then with real American conservatives.

Gilmore Tuttle

Um, USPS is not a private business. They borrow billions of dollars from the Treasury, money they’ll never be able to repay.

Bill

Pensions are uncommon, but health care and overtime pay? I would rather have USPS pay for their employee health care than to have the taxpayer subsidize it through Obamacare. I don’t care if you are contract or permanent, if you work over 40 hours a week you deserve overtime pay.

Gilmore Tuttle

No, don’t misunderstand what I wrote… I do NOT want the taxpayers to subsidize their health care either. I want contracted postal workers to pay FULL FREIGHT (no pun intended) of their own Obamacare premiums (after all they are now “Affordable” according to the title of the law), out of their own pay checks. NO subsidies.

Ric Charbonneau

I looked at the website and most of the openings are in Co. Springs. There is only one position listed in Denver and no jobs posted in Boulder or Longmont.

C-Sharp

Odd that most of the jobs would be in Colorado Springs since the USPS
recently closed the Colorado Springs sorting facility and moved all
sorting up to Denver.

Getta Pair

Like you all to jump off your high horses for a minute and
look at reality. Media has jumped on the bang wagon to announce the new jobs
but the uspo does not have the job hiring baiscs in place to hire anyone. Did
you know that the ‘900 new jobs’ are not posted on uspo website? No they are
not, we have a uspo log in, we viewed the jobs in colorado
and the so called jobs are not on the site!

Why a delay in making these jobs available? The hiring arm
of the uspo is a bloody nightmare and is entirely incompetent in getting their
act together. The site where one applies for work is yet another disaster, have
any of you ever attempted to apply with this dinosaur of an online application?

Employed folks have it made, they do not have to dumb
themselves down to dealing with the job hiring process and mind bending tactics
that employers put into motion to stay entirely removed from job seeking
candidates.

What happened to the old school process of finding work and
getting hired? One used to be able to go to the company, ask to speak with the
hiring manager and schedule a face to face. Remember that? That is a thing of
the past. Nowadays you have to jump through so many hoops to get work, dont
expect a speedy completion for your job seeking efforts. It could take months
to be considered for employment, are you ready to wait, are you thick skinned
and tolerant of one delay after another? Most will give up under the pressure.
Compete bogus online apps that dump you out of an application half way through
it, but wait you just spent the last 45 minutes checking boxs and clicking on
next page… Oh goodness, you have to log in again and repeat the same stupid
process. What about the status of your job pursuits? There is a 97% chance that
you will never receive phone calls or email follow up, in the end there is no
mechanism in place to provide any feedback..

Lets assume the new 900 job listings will go live soon, if
you get your application completed then what? A mass hiring interview process
will follow where huge amounts of paper work will need to be signed, to the
tune of 35 pages, you will give everything, soc sec numbers, all your personal
info and sign every pathetic document an agency can throw at you. Testing will
be required that insults your intelligence, good luck locating a test center
and dealing with competent on site staff to assist in the completion of the
test. Will the site provide hardware and software to deliver the testing, will
the staff be trained to assist? Frustrated yet, what about annoyed?

Wait we are not done yet, now wait in line for the
interview… Will you get a crack pot manager that is not qualified to interview,
does this staff person have a high school education, are they capable of making
important decisions? Not likely. Getting a job with a public institution is a
lesson futility, in fact so many obstacles exist in the hiring process that
most will not have the intestinal fortitude to stick it out. None of these uspo
jobs once posted will provide benefits, they are part time listings and a
convenient ploy for the employer to avoid any accountability, you are on your
own.

These horror stories are not fiction, we have encountered
all of these things itemized in this comment. Where were we? Oh yeah, the uspo
is hiring, good luck!

Emilie Rusch covers retail and commercial real estate for The Post. A Wisconsin native and Mizzou graduate, she moved to Colorado in 2012. Before that, she worked at a small daily newspaper in South Dakota. It's the one with Mount Rushmore.